Project Simplify — Week Five: Choose Your Own Adventure
Well, I don’t have before and after pictures this week because I’m not really quite sure what my hot spot was.
I did once more tackle the school closet “drawing supplies” that are free-access. Knox was getting into it and spreading crayons around the house every morning. So, I took one of my file boxes, put in a hanging folder for paper and a hanging folder for notebooks and a snap-tight box for crayons and pencils, and the lid fit on top of the folder box. So far, so good. We have had three days without a crayon explosion, but I know better than to declare that problem conquered.
By far my worst problem is the office. I pottered about in there and at least cleared my desk and broke down the boxes that our school books arrived in. And I cleared two shelves of the bookshelf for collecting the books and materials we’ll use this coming year. I still need to clear the children’s desk that’s in there, and there’s still random piles here and there, and it really needs to be cleaned, but it is at least not a terrible place to be anymore.
Maybe catching up on laundry should have been my hot spot, because I haven’t been on top of it at all. I hate rewashing a load because I forgot it in the washer! Vinegar in a quick wash does do wonders, though.
Then, yesterday, as I kicked on my garden clogs for the third time, I realized that my hot spot for the week has been the garden! Our garden is worked and half-planted and yesterday I spent over an hour expanding and weeding (and de-grassing) the strawberry area. I am really excited to have a strawberry patch! At our last house only 2 or 3 of the 20 plants I planted lasted to the second year. So this year I planted 50. And probably 30 of them lived! And at least 15-20 of those must have put out 4 runners a piece in the fall! So I moved some plants in the overcrowded area to the bare patches. I hope I didn’t end up killing a bunch. I also got some spare daisies and chives from a friend, and on Day Two it looks like they just might take. The spinach and lettuce and kohlrabi is sprouting, I think the peas are just barely poking up, and I’m waiting on the herbs and carrots and beans and cucumbers, but it’s still been pretty cold at night, so it might take awhile.
Hope springs eternal, especially in the spring in gardens. :)
